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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
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The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
Source: In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167 -
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
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When you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.
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